Royal Irish Army

The Royal Irish Army was the army of Ireland from 1800 to 1921, making it the British Army's garrison in Ireland. The army had a strength of 9,000 in 1861, and it was commanded by General Graham Hamilton and stationed in County Dublin for decades. The army was disbanded in 1921 following the end of the Irish War of Independence, which led to the creation of the Irish Army as the military of the semi-independent Irish Free State.